Community Space Litmus

Sounds of Ji-?k [Hell], 2016,?With the support of SeMA?Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016

, 2016

Sounds of Ji-?k [Hell] is a retrospective sound that conveys the historical activities of Community Space Litmus. Through the form of a radio drama, Sounds of Ji-?k documents cultural diversity issues and Litmus’s ongoing processes of forming cultural relations since its 2007 inception in Wongok-dong in Ansan, an area so-called “Little Asia” for its density of migrants. After interviewing five former directors of Litmus, they plan to edit it into five installments, each installment containing a former director’s mission and specific activities at Litmus. “Ji-?k” is a pun, and the result of overidentification of local (Ji-y?k) phobias prevalent in the society. The idea that process-oriented art is simply replaced by “local activity” and that this signals an adaptation to certain primitive passion is kind of a self-mocking complaint of today’s flattened perspective. However with accepting the cliche of local art, they rather willingly attempt to pleasure with becoming them. In the drama one related to Litmus would simulate the historical voice of him/herself or companies as an amatuer actor. This work might be the raw sounds resonating from Ji-?k/Ji-y?k.

Episode 1: Dangerous Crossroads

A day in the near future, a nuclear bomb accidentally falls in Ansan, turning the world into hell. In this peculiar world, the dominant population are the poor artists who used to live in basement rooms. Metal scrap collectors, sheath peelers, and masters of machetes, the surviving people gather together and start sharing their stories.

Episode 2: A Broken Triangle

YU, Seung-Deok, the second Director of LITMUS, who was assumed to be disappeared, appeared again. Based on the testimony of the witnesses who have heard his speech, SONG, Jee and AN, Dae-Woong started their pursuit of YU. His assertion, advocating a survival wild residency, became even more desperate for artists after the atomic bomb explosion. And another group of people in pursuit of YU. What answer will the yellow envelop which is left of them? Should LITMUS participate in the propaganda...

Episode 3: Being on the move

Jee Song and Ahn, Dae-Woong barely evade the chase and head to the museum, whose function has totally changed after that A-Bomb Blast, in search of the former director GOAK, So-Yean... Mean-while, after the Blast, JUNG, Jae-Min, who once was their colleague, became a cold-blooded minion with his armband. GOAK, disguises herself as a curator at the frontline, facing with the watchers and her former colleagues, building an artist network by sending messages in Morse code secretly at the corner of the museum storage, and seeks the ways to reunite the artists, still pursuing freedom... Will SONG and AN find the clue to the yellow envelop and the White Dragon in the Culture City of Asian Hub...

Episode 4: As the White Dragon Flies

With the help go Gwak, Song and Ahn finally reveal what the white dragon is. And the astonishing fact about the nature of the yellow envelop relayed by the white dragon. Meanwhile war clouds hovers over Ansan...The day of final battle has arrived. The artist participating in Ansan Landings are ready to confront the government forces. It was their hands with molotov cocktails which used to hold brushes. Now, what shall be the answer of the god?

Episode 5: WONGOK PRET-A-PORTER

Kidnapped Song was interrogated. The investigator inquires Song about her activities in the past. Can she hang in there and go through this interrogation alone? Meanwhile, after Ansan Landings, Gwak asks Paik for his help and succeeded to found the United Artists...Ahn and Agent Tae go back to Culture City of Asian Hub under iron-tight security, to save Song. What are they fighting for and for whom are they pulling the triggers? Will everything be over at one point? The last episode of the Voice from Hell!

Community Space Litmus

Community Space Litmus is situated in Ansan, a city in the province of Gyeonggido in Korea. It is an artistrun- space created ten years ago and has evolved over time to represent the multicultural identity of the city. Ansan boasts a very diverse community with immigrants?the majority of whom are from all over Asia?accounting for more than 80% of the population. Community Space Litmus pursues its core mission of providing an opportunity and space for diverse ethnic groups to engage in art and communicate with each other and learn to respect mutual differences. It strives to explore the possibilities of community praxis at the intersections of art and life. Since opening in 2007, it has become the site of several projects such as No Takebacks Allowed, 2007, curated by Peik Kiyoung; Intercaf?, 2008, by Yoo Seungdeog; Being on the Move, 2011, by Gwak Soyeon; Asia Art Festival, 2014, by Baek Yong Sung; and Wongok Pr?t-?-Porter, 2016, by Jee Song.